A selection of Brian Deer’s investigations
Monkey business Brian Deer on the TGN1412 London drug trial disaster The Sunday Times, 24 September 2006 In March 2006, six men were seriously injured by an experimental drug being tested at a private research […]
Reprint Exposed: the bogus work of Professor Briggs The Sunday Times, 28 September 1986. Professor Michael Briggs, an eminent British scientist, faked major research on leading brands of contraceptive pill now taken by 10m women […]
Brian Deer: Vioxx – a killer painkiller NOTE: This legacy page relates to material published at an earlier build of the briandeer.com website, and now serves purely gateway purposes This page indexes resources from a […]
This page is material from a 1990s investigation and campaign in The Sunday Times of London over the risks of an antibiotic with many names, such as Septra, Septrin, Bactrim, Sulfatrim, and co-trimoxazole Memo by […]
Reprint Withdrawn painkiller linked to hundreds of deaths The Sunday Times, February 13 2005 Brian Deer DOCTORS have reported 103 deaths they suspect were due to the painkiller Vioxx, which was withdrawn from sale over […]
Reprint Vioxx death toll may hit 2,000 in UK The Sunday Times, August 21 2005 Brian Deer THE families of as many as 2,000 British patients who died after using the painkiller Vioxx could join […]
Documents obtained in 1999 by Brian Deer during his Sunday Times investigation of AidVax, the supposed “world’s first Aids vaccine”, from the California company, VaxGen Inc, resulted in federal prosection of Dr William Heyward, who […]
Scandal of job deal for CDC official Documents passed to Brian Deer during his 1999 Sunday Times investigation of the so-called “world’s first Aids vaccine” involving California company, VaxGen Inc, resulted in federal prosection of […]
Dispatches: Thursday 28 September 2006, 9-10 pm The drug trial that went wrong Award-winning journalist Brian Deer investigates the circumstances surrounding the infamous drug trial conducted at a private unit in London’s Northwick Park Hospital […]
History of medicine “AidsVax: The world’s first AIDS vaccine” This page archives materials gathered by Brian Deer from his investigation for The Sunday Times of London into VaxGen Inc of California, and its “world’s first […]
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